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1- A company that offers $1,000 for the best idea an employee submits each quarter is running an____________
A. internal innovation contest.
B. new-venture team.
C. an idea incubator
D. a skunkworks
2- To promote an entrepreneurial spirit, an organization might assign employees to a___________ , a separate unit where people work to develop and implement a major new activity.
A.Culture-change group.
B. new-venture team.
C. team-building exercise.
D. training program
3- You have just started a new web-based business, and now you realize that if you want your company to succeed, you will have to create at least 10 new products over the next six months. Which of the following organizational characteristics would not help the company to be more creative? Check all that apply.
a-Hire only recognized experts, and don’t hire anyone who is eccentric.
b-Set up a reward system that encourages success. Pay people only for doing things that make the company more profitable.
c-Allow employees to make mistakes and even reward mistakes when they are made, if they stem from very creative ideas.
d-Run the company like a tight ship. Create rules about how much creativity is expected and ensure that people follow them.
4- In new venture teams and skunkworks, managers remove employees from the main body of the company in order to give them:
a- Additional rules and regulations so that innovative ideas are implemented correctly
b- Additional time, space, and freedom for innovation
c- Extra training so that they can learn from more senior members of the organization
d- Extra exposure to customers and renegades who can help them dream up new product approaches.
5- Management at Work
Your company’s CEO recently attended a conference on organizational development (OD) where she heard about a number of new techniques, including large-group interventions. She wants you to write a report comparing these new techniques to more traditional OD tools, including team-building activities and surveys.
5- Use your knowledge of organizational development to answer the following questions, which contain information you would need to write your report.
6- The large-group intervention organizational development model applies to .
A. a specific problem or group
B. an entire system
7- When using survey feedback activities:
A. Employees and consultants work together to create surveys
B. Managers analyze survey data to solve problems
C. Only consultants are allowed to see survey data
D. Employees do problem solving based on data